SETI
Will SETI Find Alien Life?
Yahoo! News, "SETI's Search for Intelligent Alien Life Resumes" Dec 06, 2011; http://news.yahoo.com/setis-search-intelligent-alien-life-resumes-153805040.html more
Too Much Sulfur
Sulfur plays a crucial role in life chemistry. This fact became personal for me a year ago when I was diagnosed as sulfur deficient. Many protein functions crucially depend on sulfur. Fortunately, … more
Why Jupiter and Saturn Have No Twins
Likewise, the discovery of over 300 extrasolar gas giant planets combined with spacecraft missions to explore the outer solar system is beginning to establish the rare gas giant planet system … more
Milky Way Galaxy’s Tiny Black Hole
The latest and most definitive measurement puts the mass of that black hole at 3,600,000 times the mass of the Sun.1
The Milky Way Galaxy’s central black hole by itself is not dangerous to … more
Design of the Solar System’s Gas Giants
The masses and orbits of the solar system’s four gas giant planets are crucial for life on planet Earth. Without the gas giant planets, Earth would suffer from frequent life-destructive … more
Search for the Sun’s Twin
The discovery of over 270 extrasolar planets, combined with spacecraft missions to explore the outer solar system, likewise is beginning to establish the rare planetary system doctrine. In July 2007, … more
Does the Probability for ETI = 1?
Earlier this fall (September 25) I had a three-minute debate on Mancow’s Morning Madhouse, a nationally syndicated radio show, on the topic “Is there scientific evidence for intelligent … more
Effect of Distant Orbiters on Habitability
A recent study by an MIT astronomer of a distantly orbiting companion to the nearby planet-hosting star HD 3651 illustrates the problems a distant relative can pose for any possible life-supportable … more
Why We Need to Return to the Moon
The Apollo missions were more than just television spectaculars, however. The Apollo program helped us solve the mystery of the moon’s origin and helped establish how amazingly designed the moon … more
Skeptic Argues that SETI Scientists Have Religious Motivation
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In a recent book review, a prominent skeptic contends that scientists involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) deify the … more
Petroleum: God's Well-Timed Gift to Mankind
7/1/2004 by Dr. Hugh Ross
I am old enough to remember the days when gasoline sold for $.26 a gallon. But, even at today's high prices, gasoline is a bargain compared to what it could cost if it were … more
Exotic Life Sites: The Feasibility of Far-Out Habitats
Most questioners are looking for a particular answer. Science fiction novels, The Planetary Society, and countless movies, from E.T. to Contact to Planet of the Apes, suggest that extraterrestrial … more
Search for Planets Draws a Blank
Is the universe really rife with life sites, as Carl Sagan asserted?1 Research data continues to shape an answer to this question, but the weight of evidence falls, thus far, on the negative side. The … more
Aliens From Another World? Getting Here From There
Growing numbers of UFO and ETI cults, some overtly religious, others with the pretense of purely scientific endeavor, preach their own message of salvation for the human race, a message that directly … more
A Spectrum of Views on ETI
by Sam Conner, Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, and Dr. Hugh Ross
The “Christian position” on extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has been a matter of debate since the time of Thomas Aquinas.1, 2 … more
